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DH0123 16-Jun-21 09:42 AM

David was recently out of college. And in that strange transition point at his life. What was worse is that he was living at home for a little bit. He'd told himself it would just be a month, but that had been at the start of the year, and it was almost Summer now. He turned off the computer and walked over to look out of his window. He didn't know what to do with his life. But the gods? The gods had retreated. The wave of Christianity had made things harder for them on the world. So they had stayed in the divine plane. But... well, an ancient threat had reared its head. The half created. Formed at the start of time they were mistakes. Where magic and energy had started the process of creating something. But it wasn't complete. These beings were jealous and thirsty. Always seeking to rob purpose and the very concept of definition from the formed beings of the universe. The big problem? Well, you always needed someone as unmagical as possible to complete a ritual. That would seal them away for another few thousands years. And they knew just who to help with that. It was one of the stories of Medea that never got into the telling. How she and Jason had performed that ritual before. But... well, the place where they had done it didn't exist anymore. Not in the form it did. It had been within Mount Etna. But the passages they had used were gone. And a new place to do that ritual would need to be found. In the centuries, Medea had found her way to the UK, and so, she was relaxing in an old mansion bought with old money. When a familar feeling came on her. She knew what Hera felt like. When her patron goddess touched her shoulder. Her cheek. But then... well, that old feeling. The affection. The unnatural tipsy feeling of a school girl crush forced on her then cranked up to maximum. But, this time it was a younger man. Some gawky kid still finding his way. "You are needed once again" the goddess whispered in her ear.

Before Medea could protect herself. Before she could stop the intrusion of the gods, Hera's will was done. The connection made. Just like last time, if David hurt her, if he broke an oath to her, she would be free of the bond and able to act again. But... well, right now she knew that the new love of her life was about a hundred miles away. Wistfully looking up at a mostly starless sky in the middle of Bristol. And... well, he was picked for a destiny. She was back on this track again.

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 16-Jun-21 09:55 AM

Medea was, well, not exactly happy about this new transaction. She could feel the weight of what the gods called love resting against her heart, her heart rate rising, the pure image of her “love” fresh in her mind. She hated it. She purely hated it. She hated the feeling, she hated the gods. But no matter how much she tried to, she couldn’t hate the man she was now fated to be in love with. It was almost impossible to do for her. Medea stood from her chair, her eyes flaring angrily. The fire in front of her flickered and crackled, the sweet scent of burning sugar paper in the air. There was a few bookcases around, filled with books from the ages that maybe only Medea herself could read. The language of the gods on the pages in the rotting leather books Her temper flared inside of her, heat rising and rising to the tipping top of her head, and then she finally got angry. She picked up a chair next to her easily, and threw it again the wall at 10 mph, shattering it into many pieces all over the floor and wall. Her chest heaved, her fingers clenched. She decided she needed to get out of her house, she needed to watch the life escape this plane. She went to her armoury, picking up her many engraved knives, her two pistols, and nothing more. She went down to the streets, prowling them like a dark shadow, a being of the ancient times, a being of magic and power. She stalked around the corner of the alley, deep in the city were murders like what was about to happen occurred all the time. She stepped up to a gruff looking biker of a man, but the look in medeas eyes warned the man of what to come but before he could say a word or shout out or fight back, a knife was lodged just below the rib, warm blood soaking her knife. She smiled, a crazy, psychotic smile that would warn anyone to put her in a psych ward. She looked him in the eyes, the shine and shimmer slowly leaving his now dull eyes, his heartbeat slowing down rapidly. She pulled the knife out, the stabbed him.

DH0123 17-Jun-21 02:26 AM

The guy in question wasn't some evil arsehole. He had suffered all his life with fetal alcohol syndrome. Turned to drugs himself. And got wrapped in to the wrong crowd. And he was out looking to get some money for his addiction. He was desperate. And wore the biker gear to intimidate. He didn't actually want to hurt anyone or fight anyone. But, he needed to look the part. And his story ended here. He saw her and smiled, thinking he'd found his score. But then... He froze. He saw that smile. And then grunted. His eyes widened, and he looked at her. The word why forming on his lips. But then the light started to fade. His bloody hand grasping at hers. Then he slumped into the corner. His legs giving out. It took him about 2 minutes to fade completely. Unless she did more damage to him. David was completely unaware of what was happening in his city. He stepped back inside and checked his phone. That weird news story about the chemical spill was still on. He sighed and closed his computer laptop. He was just about to head to bed when he froze, and turned. There was Hera. He didn't know who it was. It was some woman surrounded by golden light wearing a toga. And... well, by the time she was done he was sitting down on the couch. A thousand yard stare directed at the floor. Hera didn't appear to Medea. The goddess knew that right now the sorceress would be mighty pissed

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 17-Jun-21 12:14 PM

She slowly and carefully extracted the now blood bathed blade from his chest, merely waving her hand and the body before her disappeared from existence, left up to the story of a mysterious disappearance, like the one hundred other ones that happened every day. She cleaned the blood off the knife with a dirty rag she had. Then she started walking again, a smile creeping on her face as she stepped over the pool of quickly disappearing blood. She kept walking and walking, till somehow, someway, she ended up close to the building her “true love” lived at. She didn’t know how she knew but she was her of it. Maybe it was the gods sick, twisted sense of humour that she ended up here. She looked up at the sky, and silently cursed the gods for this. I’m under a minute, she was at the building, on another roof and looking inside his windows with binoculars she kept with her, her pistol in her hand, finger on the trigger. Her anger flared her subsided when she looked at the man, her feelings for him overwhelming the anger. But she knew full well that these were not her own. This was a twisted game the gods played with her one too man times, her feelings towards him pure hatred, just because she was fated to be with him or love him in some aspect.

DH0123 17-Jun-21 12:20 PM

But, before she could make any rash decisions, there was a polite cough behind her. And there was Mercury. In all his glory... And... well, this was Mercury. So he appeared as a middle aged man. A rather impressive beard. Boots with wings on. And... well, nothing else but his lyre. He smiled at her. "Ah, Medea. I would ask that you don't do that. I know what has been done with you. And maybe Hera shouldn't. But she means well. This young man won't be like Jason. And you have been so alone for almost three thousand years." He walked over and placed a hand on the gun, pushing it down. "Also, you really really will regret doing that. Whilst the feelings aren't yours, they are very very real. And it won't be like what you did to your children or Jason."

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 17-Jun-21 12:42 PM

“Mercury.” She spat, but put the gun down to her side in the presence of the god. “Why don’t you tell hera to stick it up her-“ a flash of lightning stopped her sentence, she looked up with an angry expression, but looked back at the god. “You know full well how this will end. They always do it, and they always will. And I was perfectly fine by myself for the last three thousand years, before you gods decided to play your stupid games again. Why me? Why did it have to be me again? The second time?” She asked aloud, not exactly at her but just generally, at anyone who could give her an answer to her questions and tribulations. “Why do you gods have to use humans like toys? Like we are some plaything that you can just use for your own entertainment?”

DH0123 17-Jun-21 12:50 PM

He smiled and sat down on the edge of the roof. his eyes flicked to the apartment. Where even now David was still cradling his head. His hands running through his hair. "Because of the modern world, no one knows about magic. There isn't anyone with an ounce of the power you have. You are the one to help him. You know that the chosen one needs to be as unmagical as possible. But without a guide, a protector, they will kill him. Pleease, tell me Medea. Who do you hate more? Us gods? A mortal? Or those unformed?"

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 17-Jun-21 12:58 PM

She did not reply, for she did not yet know. She stepped right up to the edge of the building, and knew full well that she could not let this almsot innocent man get slaughtered because of the gods. “You will know soon enough Mercury.” She said, as she started to climb down to go to the mans apartment. She climbed the stairs to his door, and politely knocked on it, already preparing her magic to heal the mans fractured mind

DH0123 17-Jun-21 02:06 PM

DH0123 18-Jun-21 01:35 AM

The god smiled at her ash she started to move off. He followed her and touched her shoulder. "Thank you, Medea. You always do the right thing in the end." He then vanished as she moved off. Apparently content with her actions. David though, was in for a massive surprise. He looked up at the knock, and saw the beautiful woman standing there. He blinked in surprise and stood up. Pulling the sliding door open and staring at her. HIs eyes trailling over her hair, her face, her shoulders. THen back up to her face. "I... who are you?" Fuck she's gorgeous he thought to himself. It was a thought that she was used to seeing in guys faces.

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 18-Jun-21 02:03 AM

Her heart skipped a beat when she looked at him, but she knew these feelings weren’t real. She could feel the fake ness to them, the godly magic of hera rubbing through her brain, making her feel this way. She just glowered at the man in front of her, taking in his features before walking on past him. “I’m Medea. And I am your protecter till those bastards we call gods change their mind.” She said, sitting down on the sofa with her knife being used to clean her nails

DH0123 18-Jun-21 02:11 AM

David glanced to her then out the door she came through. he pushed it closed and looked back at her. She's picking her nails with a knife. I can see the pistol on her hip. This is... okay, so she's dangerous. Can I smell blood on her? He walked into the kitchen and poured out some wine into two glasses and walked back in. Offering one to her, and then settling back next to her on the sofa. "So... we're going to save the world then?" He took a big sip. "Something about stuff from before the dawn of time. Gods. And some great quest. And you're going to keep me safe?"

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 18-Jun-21 02:14 AM

“Yep. We have to do a little quest of sorts, of course commissioned by the great and all mighty gods” she said, a little level of sarcasm at the end of her sentence, her expression clearly that of unamusement and slight anger. “And you, puny mortal man, are very weak and need someone like me to help you.”

DH0123 18-Jun-21 02:48 AM

David took another sip of wine. Right now he was feeling the weight of a lot of things pressing down on his shoulders. And he had no idea what to do about any of it. "I... okay, so. What do we do now? Do we need to travel? How much should I pack? I... I assume we're going off the beaten track?" Spoken in the voice of someone who had never been outside of a modern city or the UK. Which... wasn't ancient Greece. He swallowed again. And stood up. "What should I pack?"

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 18-Jun-21 03:56 AM

“Any clothes you feel you need. Valuables won’t be needed, and technology wouldn’t be the best if you are being hunted down. Electronics alerts monsters, and other very powerful beings to your location. Pack anything you hold dear to you too. I can’t ha W you being a crying mess cause you miss some Jewellery or a teddy bear.” Medea said, not making a move from her sat position, but looked the man straight in the eye. “I know we need to go to Greece. But I think it best I talk to my patron goddess before we leave, to know exaclty where to go.” She said

DH0123 18-Jun-21 10:45 AM

David walked into his bedroom and started to stuff some bags. He packed up his laptop. A couple of books. And a few changes of clothes. He took about 20 minutes to get ready. But in that time, well, Medea was able to summon her Patron. Hera strode into the room. The gods always looked beautiful and powerful. But Hera maybe looked pensive. "Medea, my child. I am so glad to see you accept this newest gift." She started. Trying to start on a positive note.

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 18-Jun-21 10:49 AM

“Cut the bullshit hera. I don’t want to hear no sorry excuse you have for Ehh you did this to me of all people. Just tell me where I need to go and what I need to do, then you can go back to the place you came.” She said, her eyes full of anger and hatred. Even a god of heras status could be.. well not afraid exactly but on edge around a sorceress like Medea was. It was rather terrifying to see a woman with knives galore, guns and blood on her clothes with a one hundred metre death stare

DH0123 18-Jun-21 10:58 AM

Hera paused looking at Medea. Her expression still serene, but her eyebrows knitting together. "Medea. You know I understand about Jason. He was an oathbreaker. This mortal is nothing like him. It will be good for you. And with time I hope you'll see it. We... we are not sure yet. Mount Eta is no longer an option. But go to the ruins of the Oracle in Greece, there you shall need to gather some clues. He has studied classics. He will be able to help with his knowledge. Though it will be out of date."

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 18-Jun-21 11:01 AM

“Of course it will be.” She said under her breath, looking up at the ceiling. “You can leave now hera, before you start spouting off about how lonely I was for three thousand years or something like that. Me and the male need to get moving as fast as possible, alright?”

DH0123 18-Jun-21 11:29 AM

Hera paused as Medea talked back at her. "Young lady. I am your patron. I would ask your respect and trust. You know that I would never do anything to harm you. I approved of your punishment of the oathbreaker. But this is important. He is important. As are you. This needed to be done. Please get going." That's when David stepped out. He looked up and blinked. Hera had vanished in an instant. "I... what? Who was here?"

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 18-Jun-21 12:02 PM

“Some moody cow bitch. Got your stuff or do you need me to help you find something? If not, then good, nkw we can get the fuck out of here even faster. You will spend one night in my manor where I can keep an eye on you. Tomorrow we are going to travel to the ancient lands.”

DH0123 19-Jun-21 04:50 AM

David tilted his head to the side when he heard that one. He shrugged, not fully understanding what was going on. "I've got all my stuff. Lets get going and see where it leads. I've always wanted to go to... are we going to Crete, Greece, Turkey, the Balklands?" He was trying to imagine where all these things were, where might the ancient lands be for her.

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 19-Jun-21 06:08 AM

“Greece. We are going to the original place of the oracle, the island of Delphi. Let’s hope you don’t get killed before we get there, Hm?” She said, taking him by the wrist and dragging him off. And as soon as he was dragged through the door, they weren’t on a street or a corridor. They were in a wide hall, two staircases curling around a fountain in the centre, a statue of a Pegasus spouting water from its mouth.

DH0123 20-Jun-21 07:31 AM

David looked around, how on earth... He stepped cautiously away from Medea, holding his hands up, and touching the banister of the staircase, then the statue. He looked back to his companion. "Magic is... real?"

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 20-Jun-21 07:32 AM

“Of course. Did the bitch not tell you that gods and monsters were real? If she did, then you should know that, yes, magic is real. If she didnt, and she was vague, then that makes perfect sense.”

DH0123 20-Jun-21 07:33 AM

He let his breath out in one long sigh. "I thought... maybe she was pulling my leg when she said she was Hera... Maybe this was all going to be a big joke. Okay... this is real. Fuck."

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 20-Jun-21 07:36 AM

“Is it only now registering in your tiny human brain?” she said rather coldly, but it was all she could do to hide her fake feelings from weeping through into her words. “Come. You will be sleeping in my bed chambers tonight so I can keep an eye on you’ll

DH0123 21-Jun-21 02:54 AM

He looked at her suddenly then, his eyes frowning as he considered her and what she was offering. Sleeping in her room. That was... unexpected. But still. He shrugged, and walked after her. "Okay, so will we be doing that to get to Greece... woah..." He leaned against the wall suddenly, really quite dizzy. It was an old reaction, one she'd gotten over ages ago. "What was that?"

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 21-Jun-21 04:09 AM

She looked back. “What is it now hu- oh. I completely forgot about that. You just experienced travel sickness. It happens after you travel a great distance in short time. Think of car sickness, but dialled up to 10. You’ll be ok, but the nausea might create vomiting.” She grabs hun gently by the arm, leading his dizzy body up the stairs

DH0123 21-Jun-21 10:55 AM

He was really out of it. But he was aware of the kindness, the gentleness of her touch. How she was helping him. And he was grateful for that. "Are we going to use this to get to Greece?" He wondered aloud. Trying to figure out how he would manage to function after landing like this. He staggered up the stairs, following her directions till he got to her room. Then he stopped, just staring around. Trying to fight through the nausea. "This... isn't a normal bedroom"

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 21-Jun-21 11:00 AM

“You might be seeing double vision. Or your just looking at the roof.” She kept dragging him along and sitting him on the bed. The walls were lined with cases with old decaying books and skulls, horns, and claws of different mythological creatures. The ceiling was a swirling star system, with their own little constellations and shooting stars and such. It was very realistic

DH0123 22-Jun-21 04:19 AM

He looked up at the ceiling. THen around at the rest of the room. It was clearly from an earlier time. A warm breeze flowed through. And a soft, sweet smell was in the air. He moved to sit down on a bench, and he looked up at Medea. "That... was... very different. Phew... okay, I think I'd like to know a little more about you. How did you do that?"

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 22-Jun-21 04:21 AM

“Do what? The magic travel thing? Oh it’s pretty easy for me to do these days. I just envision where I want to be if ive been there before and then poof I’m there almsot instantly. After a few accidental trips to China, I finally managed to get the hang of it a few hundred years back.” She said, stretching out her back, going to get her sleep wear

DH0123 22-Jun-21 07:26 AM

He looks at her his mouth open, quite surprised at how casually she was talking about magic. This was something completely out of his experience. He shook his head a moment later then licked his lips. "I... that doesn't make any sense. BUt I suppose I don't know about magic. Okay," he put his bag down, and pulled the laptop out. "Lets look up the Oracle, do you have wifi?"

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 22-Jun-21 07:33 AM

She looked up at him. “Did you just ask a two millennia old person if I have wifi? Of course I do.” She goes over to his laptop to put the WiFi password in, not noticing anything else on his browser

DH0123 22-Jun-21 12:43 PM

There wasn't actually much harmful. But there was a shortcut on his desktop to a erotic visual novel. he had a moment of panic, but then she was done. His eyes followed her as she moved away, around her room. He shook his head and started to google up the location. "Okay... wait... two millennia... How old are you?"

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 22-Jun-21 06:15 PM

“Quite. I’ve been around since the Greeks were still in power, making me about 2500 years old or so.” She said, sitting down on the bed to get changed

DH0123 24-Jun-21 04:42 AM

He looked at her as she got changed. His eyes blinking once as he tried to take this in. "Over two thousand years.... so you've seen an awful lot?"

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 24-Jun-21 04:48 AM

“Oh I saw a lot of tragedy’s. I saw pompe get overrun with lava. I saw the Roman Empire fall. I saw rasputin get shot and dropped into a river. I saw d.b. Cooper jump out of a plane. I was actually on the nine eleven plane crash too.” She said as she began to slip off her dress

DH0123 25-Jun-21 09:44 AM

He stared at her. THere were two things he was trying to wrap his head around. Her comfortability with being in a state of undress around him, and the fact that she was on some major events that resulted in a lot of people becoming ex people. How was she alive when she went through all of that. He looked away as he heard the dress fall to the floor.

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 25-Jun-21 09:49 AM

She didn’t mind if he looked by all means, but clumsy help but smile as he sincerely turned away from her changing. She got into her silk satin pyjamas, slinking over to the man. “So what exactly are you trying to find on here?” She asked, leaning over him to look at his screen

DH0123 26-Jun-21 07:58 AM

He looked up from his computer. He was on a site that showed a bunch of theories and papers written on ancient greece. Both on the meanings of various legends and what happened historically. "I'm trying to figure out the histrography of what happened to the oracle... Though I suppose I could just ask you/"

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 26-Jun-21 08:01 AM

“Oh the oracle of Delphi? Pretty simple what happened to her. The oracle was stuck in the body of her latest patron, having to whither away as a corpse that could dispense prophecies when asked. Some say she’s buried under her original temple, but none have been able to prove it yet.@ she said simply

DH0123 29-Jun-21 07:39 AM

He looked at her then. His head tilted. "You spoke to the oracle?" It was clear he was still wrapping his head around this new revelation"

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 29-Jun-21 08:05 AM

“Yeah of course I did. Everyone does when they were passing Delphi at the time, and I stopped to ask.”

DH0123 02-Jul-21 08:27 AM

Chris smiled as he stood up and closed the lid to the laptop. He took in a deep deep breath. Settling himself. "Okay, so that seems to make sense. Right, Next steps. What do we need to do?"

Dr. Doooooooooooooom 02-Jul-21 10:05 AM

“We need to find her of course. Might be harder than it sounds, with the human tourists and all.” She said, stretching herself, yawning. “But we’ll worry about that in the morning. I think we both need sleep.”

DH0123 26-Jul-21 06:32 AM

Chris nodded and set his computer to one side. "Okay, that makes sense. Where should I sleep?"